domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos), mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), wood duck (Aix sponsa)

Query: Anas platyrhynchos

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Subject:	domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos), mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), wood duck (Aix sponsa)
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domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos), mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), wood duck (Aix sponsa)

Artist Jean Bungartz (1854–1934)
Description
Antique print ( Lithograph ) of several Ducks. (Pekin Duck, Mandarin Duck, Summer Duck and Rouan Duck) drawn by Jean Bungartz, from "de Vogelwereld", by A. Nuyens
Date 1886
Medium chromolithograph
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bungartz_ISCRA_N2001.jpg

Pekin Duck, Rouan Duck:
Almost all varieties of domesticated duck are descended from the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).

Mandarin Duck:
The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a perching duck species found in East Asia. Aix is an Ancient Greek word used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and galericulata is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap or bonnet.

Summer Duck:
The wood duck or Carolina duck (Aix sponsa) is a species of perching duck found in North America. It is one of the most colorful North American waterfowl.

Anas platyrhynchos
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